Hosmer's late homer lifts Royals over Orioles

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Ben Pena
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14 May, 2017, 14:18

We didn't string many at-bats together. I guess the Royals don't need to worry about nursing their bullpen the way that the Orioles have to do. It was no accident that he gave up three runs on eight hits and two walks in just 4.1 innings. The Royals have allowed five runs in their last three games and three or less runs in seven of their last nine games. Karns, who received a no-decision, was remarkably efficient with his knuckle curve, drawing 17 of his 18 swinging strikes on the pitch.

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Asher gave up a leadoff home run to Royals designated hitter Brandon Moss to lead off the bottom of the sixth inning.

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Bundy continues to churn out quality starts, making it 7-for-7 this season after giving up three runs on six hits over six innings in a win over the Chicago White Sox on Saturday.

Pena did better than that, swatting two solo homers off Karns - while swinging a pink bat - for the first multihomer game of his big league career.

Heading into this game, backup catcher Francisco Pena, who's only on the roster because of the injury to Welington Castillo, had a total of 54 Major League Baseball plate appearances to his credit. He launched a 2-2 knuckle curve from Karns into the Royals bullpen beyond the left-field fence in the third in his first at-bat. As promised, Pena made his way to the dugout TV camera well after each homer. I wasn't trying to. "He's a really good pitcher. To be honest, I wasn't calling it like it happened".

"I just think he's going to get a little crisper with his stuff", Showalter said. I'm seeing the ball better, definitely. His track record shows that will happen. Exactly one of these went for a home run.

Bundy came out after six innings and 112 pitches.

Merrifield flied out to right to end the inning, but not before fouling off eight pitches, including five straight with a full count.

"As the game wore on, I felt like I tried to do too much", Tillman said. "I've kind of had that problem my whole career".

This wasn't the outing that the Mets hoped to get out of Harvey after a drama-filled week.

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